Taken together, the chapters ofer diferent versions of how and when algorithms are made present and important to individual and institutional actors. An important suggestion here is that power and politics are never reducible to question of materiality or perception, but rather about making algorithms mater in specific ways and for specific purposes. In the concluding chapter, I revisit the core arguments of the book, and suggest that there’s a need to blend an understanding of the material substrates of algorithmic media with an understanding of the multiple ways on perceiving, feeling, acting, and knowing which coalesce around algorithms as an object of social concern. Here, I revisit some of the initial questions asked at the beginning of the book (including this introduction), and look at how algorithmic power and politics can be understood if power and politics are not necessarily about imposing force from above (or below for that mater, if understood as code). Ultimately, this chapter serves to summarize the key contributions of the book in terms of: (1) providing an understanding of algorithms that is not commited to one ontological position, but instead sees algorithms in terms of a multiple and variable ontology; (2) helping to identify forms of algorithmic power and politics; and (3) ofering a theoretical framework for the kinds of work that algorithms do and the landscapes they help to generate.
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